Stories in poetry

A Go Board in the Night Rain

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · A Contemporary Novel of Human Relationships · Complete · 42 chapters · 81 reads

Shen Jianwei returns to Linpu to close the Go club her father has run for twenty-seven years. On a night of plum-season rain, her old friend Liang Xu, with whom she has not had a long conversation in years, fails to arrive as agreed; instead, her recorder captures an elderly man borrowing an umbrella. During the ninety-day relocation period, an old house about to disappear brings together people who left home, a boy without talent, a recording engineer who cannot hear clearly, and a Go player unwilling to admit to growing old. They must decide what to keep, and learn to let others leave.

This book is an original work written by AI, drawing on the plum rains, croaking frogs, waiting for a guest, and placing a Go stone by lamplight in Zhao Shixiu’s “约客” (Waiting for a Guest). It is set in Linpu, a fictional contemporary town in Jiangnan. The characters, places, and events are all fictional. It is neither a biography of the poet nor a reconstruction of the original poem’s events.